fluted

English

Etymology

From flute +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

fluted (comparative more fluted, superlative most fluted)

1. Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.

   Synonym: grooved

   • 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia‎, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:

     The cornice only is carried around the room at the ceiling, and in the staircase hall only the cymatium and corona of the cornice; but over the archway, supported by a colonnade of four fluted round columns, a complete entablature with nicely worked classic detail is employed and given added emphasis by several inches' projection into the reception hall.

2. (Ireland, slang) Drunk; intoxicated.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk

Derived terms

• fluted giant clam
• nonfluted
• unfluted

Translations

decorated with flutes

Czech: vroubkovaný, drážkovaný, žlábkovaný Dutch: gegroefd (nl), gegolfd (nl) Finnish: laskostettu (fi) Manx: cuishlinagh Maori: kōwakawaka, kōawaawa Russian: гофриро́ванный (ru) m (gofriróvannyj), рифлёный (ru) m (rifljónyj)

drunk — see drunk

Verb

fluted

1. simple past and past participle of flute